Showing posts with label missouri mushrooms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label missouri mushrooms. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2019

Muscling Up

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"You start losing muscle mass in your 30s," the senior-yoga-class instructor told our class, "and lose 10 percent more ever...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Hope Springs

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Maybe I told you that two or three years ago a huge tractor ran over and churned to mud a rich and generous chanterelle mushroom temple I ...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Amanita Crocea

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Let's talk about why it's not easy to identify mushrooms, even with a field manual, because the manual will show a photo of a mush...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Puff and Blow

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I was raking while barefoot because barefoot links us with Earth energies and all that, when I saw puffballs: One fresh (beige, about 3 inch...
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Monday, October 15, 2018

Judas' Ear

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Rain brings for one day these delicate and translucent wood ear mushrooms, usually velvety brown, growing on thoroughly dead branches. The...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Elfin Saddles

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Shoveling beneath some rotted wood exposed some unusual mushrooms plump as cooked macaroni and about the same size and pallor, mushrooms I...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

A Star in My Hand

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Not often seen. . . the Earthstar ( Geastrum saccatum ) mushroom, with a spherical spore case about 1" in diameter that blows its to...
Monday, September 1, 2014

DaVinci Said

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Varieties gathered during a 90-minute foray, Rockwoods Reservation "To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety t...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Mushroom People

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A mushroom foray is a trip into the woods -- off the trail -- to find fungi and maybe pick some (by cutting, not uprooting!) for study ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Frankly Scarlet

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Below the cliffs is -- well, I call it "the secret pond," but it's a swamp. Before greenery and thorns and mosquitoes emerge...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

How to Stay Alive in the Woods

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Rarely do I get lost in strange woods but it was 4 p.m. and the sun was low in the naked trees with darkness scheduled to fall within the ...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Tiny Orange Fungi

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To the best of my research ability, the electric-orange embroidery on this fallen branch of dead, wet oak is fresh Phlebia radiata, in its...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Chicken of the Woods

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This is "Chicken of the Woods" or "Sulfur Shelf" ( Laetiporus sulphureus ) seen today on a dead oak in the Divine woo...
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